Car-coupling.



PATENTED' MAR. 6, 1906.

8. F. KLOHS.

- GAR COUPLING.

, 3 5 ble shear.

' UNITED No. 814,379. figiecification of letters Y's-tent.

Application filed October Z1905. Serial No. 381,766.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL F. Knots, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cool; and State of illinois, have invented certain new and 12.; 2-111 Improvements in Car-Couplers; and i do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as Will enable others skilled. in art to and c to which it appertains to make and use the .9 for :1. s same. suitable form, My invention relates to the draft li g adapted to h-zand draft appliances of railway-cars, and pe ticularly to the attachment of the :5 pocket or yoke to the rear end of 701.

shank or dravi har.

The usual construction of spring-pockets and couplers and their application to each other by means of two rivets does not {tilUMl a suificiently secure connection for secs parts under the conditions of present and inl creasing'weight of cars and trains, as the ends 0; the rivets frequently strip oil or slightly bend, thus permitting the yoke to spread and the coupler to pull out. so forming and arranging the yoke andv coupler-- shank or draw-bar that the connecting devices thereior are in double shear the objections heretofore noted are entirely obviated,

30. and therefore my invention, generally stated,

- may be said to reside in a construction wherein the yoke and draw-har are so formed that the bolts, rivets, or other fastening de-. Vices employed to connect them are in dondraw har, I in o video with :1 pl

iUli i I veen the coils oi There are other minor features of invention, all as Wlll hereafter more fully appear. in the drawings chosen for he nurpose of illustrating my invention, the scope wixe' i 40 is pointed out in the claims, Figure l is a to support a elevation of a car-coupler and yohe or spring toning. 7 pocket, showing a-construction embodying A coupler her-ring its r ar and pmmy invention. Fig. 2 is a pers iec'ive view vided with a portion adapti-fl to he k of the rear end of the coupler illustrated in posed bet-ween the ends of a yoke or 95 Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4 are cispectivc views pocket and having a portion a laplod to showing modified forms oft 1e rear end ol the lie am end. 0 ilti yo and 'l'oi'm a supp coupler. for a y olze-i'ssl-snh Like symbols refer to like parts wherever they occur. ,0?

5i Iwill now proceed to (lLSCl'llH) :n v haven 1 i tion more fully, so that others skill-9d :n the ion e. A ear-coupler Lida ted to be connected i having slots adapted to receive a yoke, a to a yoke of spring-pee at by a suitable fasyoke or s%)1'ingpool :et, and bolts connecting toning, the shank of said coupler being prosaid coup er and yoke, said bolts being in 'vicled with means for supporting said fastendouble shear.

5 ing in double shear. In testimony whereof I affix my signature I 5 5. The combination with a ear-counler, of 1n presence of two subscribing wltnesses. a yoke or sp1111gocket, and a suitalile fas- SAMUEL F. KLOHS.

tening in double shear connecting said eoup- Witnesses: ler and yoke. l A. J. BUOKLEY, 6. The combination Wlth a car-eouplel'l D. B. MASON. 

